It's only a slight exaggeration to say we haven't progressed much beyond the invention of agriculture when it comes to our view of the natural world.

Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic?

So science alone cannot solve this problem [mass extinction of humans]. It's something that we can only tackle by bringing science together with culture, economics, and even politics.

Everything I had read in the fields of fiction and science led me to a single, dark conclusion. Humans are screwed, and so is our planet.

I believe that it's fine if the university wants to regulate, for example, bandwidth access, but they should treat the students data as private data.

I think in the long run, it will be better for us if we solve our problems without suffering through some terrible disaster. I like the idea of change without Apocalypse.

We have converted huge swaths of land and ocean into human habitats where we live and grow food and harvest energy. But there's been a sea change in the past century.

Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.

We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age, ' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.

I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.

If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ...

On a supra human level, yeah, I got That Which Is. Yet on a simple human level, rare are times when either my left or my right foot is not in some kind of shit.

Definition of failure - wishful sinking!

I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.

The Lord does not measure out our afflictions according to our faults, but according to our strength, and looks not what we have deserved, but what we are able to bear.

I'm not allowed on FOX, and I'm not allowed on MSNBC.

...go in the direction your head is pointed in.

I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'

Multiculturalists argue that different cultural values are morally equivalent. That's nonsense.

Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.